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Roses awards announces winners

Corporate identity and promotional literature work stormed last week’s Roses Design Awards in Manchester, but packaging work was ‘weak’ and no work was nominated.

‘The quality wasn’t there in packaging,’ says events manager Sally Matheson at Carnyx Group, which organises the awards. Design judge chair Bruce Duckworth agrees. ‘Packaging design was poor and not up to standard. It needs improving,’ he says.

Newcastle-based Karol Marketing, which entered the awards for the first time, took the Design Grand Prix for its limited-edition clothing catalogue for Nigel Cabourn.

The Ascent of Cabourn, inspired by Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent on Everest, successfully mimicked Hillary’s original account of his climb, according to Duckworth. The catalogue ‘nailed [every detail], from the battered and torn cover to the details and presentation of the smallest woven labels in the product range’, he adds.

Manchester-based True North won the Design Chairman’s Award for an announcement card it created for fireman-turned-painter and decorator Alf Maurer.

Manchester’s Love won awards for its annual report for the Youth Justice Trust and a self-promotional item called Aprons of Distraction. Glasgow’s Graven Images won the exhibition design award for The Lighthouse’s Re:Motion exhibition.